College of Education

Comfort Pratt, Ph.D.

Dr. Comfort Awotwi Pratt is an Associate Professor of Bilingual Education and Secondary
Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is from Ghana, West
Africa. She attended the University of Ghana, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain,
Texas A&M University, and Louisiana State University. Her areas of specialization
include Spanish, French, linguistics, foreign language education, and sociolinguistics,
and her research focuses on teaching strategies and student motivations. She directs
a summer study abroad program in Salamanca, Spain, where the students study at Universidad
Pontificia de Salamanca. She is a member of the Executive Council of the TTU Teaching
Academy, and she has received numerous awards including: President’s Excellence in
Teaching Award, Teaching Academy Award for Meritorious Achievement in Teaching, Professing
Excellence Award, and American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Outstanding
Teacher of the Year Award. She teaches Spanish, language acquisition, pedagogy, and
diversity courses and is the advisor for Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic
Honor Society. She serves on the leadership team of the TExES Bilingual Target Language
Proficiency Test and is the National Vice President for the Southwest of Sigma Delta
Pi. She was honored with an endowment in 2011 and an endowed study abroad scholarship
was established in her name in 2015 (http://ttusigmadeltapi.wix.com/texastechuniversity#!dr-pratt-scholarship/cbox).